2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 5
# 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 5

Group 5 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Serbia, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Latvia, and Estonia. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 11 December 2018, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.

The group was originally scheduled to be played in home-and-away round-robin format between 5 September 2019 and 13 October 2020. Under the original format, the group winners and the best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up would advance to the play-offs.

On 17 March 2020, all matches were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the qualifying group stage would be extended and end on 17 November 2020, while the play-offs, originally scheduled to be played in November 2020, would be cancelled. Instead, the group winners and the five best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify for the final tournament.

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Russia | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 4 | +18 | 23 | Final tournament | — | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2−0 |
| 2 | Poland | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 8 | +11 | 20 | | 1–0 | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 |
| 3 | Bulgaria | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 18 | | 0–0 | 3−0 | — | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| 4 | Serbia | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 12 | | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | — | 6−0 | 1–1 |
| 5 | Estonia | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 34 | −31 | 5 | | 0–5 | 0–6 | 0–4 | 0–0 | — | 2–1 |
| 6 | Latvia | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 17 | −10 | 4 | | 1–4 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | — |

## Matches

Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

## Goalscorers

There were 77 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.57 goals per match.

5 goals

* Marko Regža

4 goals

* Stanislav Ivanov
* Tonislav Yordanov
* Patryk Klimala
* Fyodor Chalov

3 goals

* Mateusz Bogusz
* Igor Diveyev
* Dejan Joveljić

2 goals

* Kaloyan Krastev
* Patryk Dziczek
* Maksim Glushenkov
* Konstantin Kuchayev
* Magomed-Shapi Suleymanov
* Luka Adžić
* Luka Ilić

1 goal

* Zdravko Dimitrov
* Ilian Iliev
* Lachezar Kotev
* Ertan Tombak
* Sten Reinkort
* Markus Soomets
* Ander Ott Valge
* Kristaps Liepa
* Kristers Lūsiņš
* Bartosz Białek
* Bartosz Bida
* Karol Fila
* Robert Gumny
* Kamil Jóźwiak
* Jakub Kamiński
* Jakub Piotr Kiwior
* Przemysław Płacheta
* Paweł Tomczyk
* Danil Glebov
* Nikita Kalugin
* Danil Krugovoy
* Daniil Lesovoy
* Aleksandr Lomovitskiy
* Nail Umyarov
* Daniil Utkin
* Roman Yevgenyev
* Ivan Ilić
* Erhan Mašović
* Veljko Nikolić
* Filip Stuparević
* Slobodan Tedić

1 own goal

* Igor Diveyev (against Poland)
* Magnus Villota (against Russia)
